St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-01

when / am in doubt and plead and ap-
peal to the Holy Ghost for light and
illumination, and the Holy Ghost does
not convict me of it, then there Is no man In
this world that can convict me OF IL: For IL
1t was sin the Holy Ghost would tell me 30
and tell me plainly. 1t wouldn't be the Holy
Ghost and that Bible would not be truth If
that were not true. And man who is honest
with himself and honest with his God will
always know what is sin and what Is not sin;
he VIII know what TO las aside ana what to
throw off, and what to do away with, and that
is true or else the Bible is not true. There is
II heap of people in this world that would like
10 tempt God To put yoke OH the disciples
or tempt the disciples TO put yoke on them
selves that God never imposed on them. You
will find that in the Bible, TOO, ii you will
look for it right carefully. Let us do our
work under the inspiration and light of the
Holy Ghost, and we can do 1t with Integrity
and with
CLEARNEss OF CONSCIENCE
and we can accept and receive from God
what He has promised to honesty and integ-
rity of purpose. Let us attend to the es sen
tials and let the non-essentials take care of
themselves. You believe Jesus Christ can
forgive sin. Why do you believe IL? You
believe il because He has forgiven yours. II
He has, then you have got something that
will call out the highest and grandest powers
OF your nature. If there is Il mum in this
presence to-day, a woman in this building TO-
dag, who has a thorough, deep-seated, Glib
raltar-like conviction in his or her nature
that Jesus Christ can and does and has for
given their sins, they are on fire with love to
Christ for the fact, and they are earnest and
anxious and yearnng TO see Him do something
for their ueighbors and fellow citizens:
there Is no doubt about that. | remember
when the man with the ink horn came forth
and made mark on the toreheads or those
Signing and crying for the denominations done
in the midst of the city. Set his mark upon
them as much as to say to all the people,
Here are Cody, anxious men and women
who have been redeemed" And the very
TACT or their redemption has filled their hearts
with earnest signing and crying on account
OF the denominations done IN he midst of the
city by which so many of their loved ones
and their friends and neighbors have been
damned. You know If a man is q prayerful
man or a woman is a prayerful woman, she
needn't tell it; it tells itself. The man with
the ink horn-the Holy Spirit-sets the mark
in the forehead of
EVERY MAN AND WOMAN
that signs and cries for the denominations done
in the midst of the city and for the salvation of
souls. a man and Woman cannot pray long
in this world without making lines in their
foreheads that tell whether they are praying
people or not. The very act of prayer the
very density of effort and the very concen-
tration of thought and soul, the very knitting
OF the brow which seems to be insepara BILE
from the act of prayer will finally leave its
indelible mark in the forehead of every
praying man and woman. Whisky will make
its mark and leave its lines on mems faces
The intense effort and mental process that a
man undergoes when he is n professional
gambler makes its mark on his features
There are lines in the faces of gamblers that
are never seen on the faces Of men who are
not gamblers. You know that. There are
lines in the faces of earnest ministers OF the
gospel that you can search all the photographs
in the universe for, and never find on the
faces of other men. God puts his seal on
every man and woman. The Holy Spirit
writes the lines on them, Just as the Holv
Spirit will bring in the face and features of
cody men and women the lineaments that are
best known and best recognized in the best
portraits we have of Christ. We know we
have got no authentic picture of Jesus Christ.
We have got that which is the highest artistic
skill as composed Of all the highest type of
beauty and perfection in the human face as
they have been gathered from all sources of
manly perfection and beauty, and all these
features taken from one and then another
and embodied in that portrait, gives US that
magnificent type which we see in the old
masters, and which is recognized around the
world to-day as the features, lneaments and
blessed countenance of our Lord. Christ can
forgive sin, know, because he forgave mine
l have heard some people doubt whether
CHRIST PERFORMED MIRACLES.
Some people doubt why He performed them.
Whether it was to exercise the power of di-
vinity TO make an exhibition OF His power.
and 10 convince man, or whether simply DEM
onstrative in its character, for the surer and
better security and better faith OF His dis
clples. DIR. Lyman Abbott says one thing
DR.. Henry Myers another. They are both doc
tors of divinity, and both disagree about it.
But 1t don't make any difference how they